Flash :: Blurs And Bluring In MX:Image And Text Blurs (examples Of What I Would Like Included)

Background Image Blurs
My flash project has a large background image (.jpg). Above that layer, I have another smaller image (currently a .png with transparency, I've also tried a .gif). When the user pushes a button, the small image moves up & down, which works fine. A second button moves the image left & right, but when doing this, the background image blurs (gets wavy) when the small front image is moving.

Playing the movie within Flash does not result in this effect, only when testing the movie (ctrl+enter) or viewing the .swf file. I'm also just updating an old file which didn't do this, I can't figure out what's different this time. Any ideas?

Text Blurs On Export
Hi! Has anyone ever run into an issue in which text is crisp during design but is blurred on export? It didnt happen right off the bat it was after several versions had been exported so at one time it did work. But at a certain point all additional exports were blurred. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I was also using north codes swf2 if that rings any bells.

Tween Class...blurs My Text?
I am using the following code:

ActionScript Code:
new Tween(_root.rightSide, "_x", mx.transitions.easing.Strong.easeOut, currentX, 290.5, 1, true);

inside my mc, rightSide, there is a static text box (Verdana, Bitmap text, no anti-alias).
After the tween is executed, my text is blurred...what can I do to prevent this?
Thnx

TextInput Text Blurs Out When Font Is 8
Ok so I have a TextInput height="17" and fontSize="8" but the problem with that is that the text seems blurry. If I set fontSize to "9" the text becomes clear but TOO big for the height of the TextInput.

Has anyone fixed this issue? Can you help? Thanks!

Alias Text Blurs After Clicking On Button To Go To Next Frame
i'm getting really frustrated--have spend waaaay too much time on this. The task at hand: animate a poem. SO. The font must readable as justified text, it then must animate to reveal a second poem inside the text block.

the problem: the first keyframe is crystal clear. The second keyframe, which is the EXACT same image (and arrived at via a button) is BLURRED.

My verdana 10 alias text is positioned on whole numbers on the x/y coord, so this isn't the issue. I am completely baffled as to why this text image mysteriously blurrs after the button goto action on the next keyframe.

Please HELP. I'm poor and I need this job!

p.s. since each letter animates in this poem, I've made each letter of the alphabet a symbol and then realigned them over a text guide layer! Am i just stupid or was there an easier way to do this?

Scalable SWF Blurs Around 800 X 600
I've exhausted my patience and knowledge with this problem:

My client refuses to understand that sites generally shouldn't look the exact same on all resolutions. So I've attempted to make his site scalable with constrained proportions.

This works great except when you are viewing resolutions around 800 x 600 when everything looks blurry, vector graphics and type.

A rough is up at http://www.fullermarketinggroup.com/flash/fuller.html

Can someone please tell me that there is a solution? My type is on even x and y values and antialiasing is turned off on the type (I think).

Help!
Thanks

Gaussian Blurs?
Hi all;

I was wondering; is there any way to make a Gaussian Blur effect in Flash, to make something look out of focus? I know you can just use Photoshop or some such program to blur a bitmap and then import it into Flash, but I was wondering if Flash can do it directly, with a vector object.

TIA!

Do Blurs And Fx Only Work On MC?
Seems they won't work on graphics?

Motion Blurs
How do you create motion blurs in flash MX /5 ? Any one with links to tutorials is welcome to post em

How The Zoom Blurs Are Done ?
In this site, http://www.agencynet.com, when we click in a department they do some kind of zoom blur. Can someone tell me how they do it, i have a client that want´s a effect like that, but i don´t no how is done. If someone could help me please

Thank´s in advanced

Different/Dynamic Blurs
Probably a stupid question, but how can I use different blurs on different objects?

When I use the BlurFilterExample Adobe gives me I only be able to blur all my object on stage. But I want to blur specific object specific values, depending on their specific location. (in my case it's z related as i am doing some stuff with Sandy 3D.)

Could someone give me a simple example?

Thanks

Tweening Blurs
How do you gradually add a filter? Can you do it using Tweener? I cant get her working...

ActionScript Code:
var blur:BlurFilter = new BlurFilter(); blur.quality = BitmapFilterQuality.MEDIUM;blur.blurX = 0;blur.blurY = 0; frontImage.filters = [blur]; Tweener.addTween (frontImage, { time:1, blurX:25, blurY:25, transition:"easeInQuad"} );orTweener.addTween (blur, { time:1, blurX:25, blurY:25, transition:"easeInQuad"} );

Motion Blurs
How do you create motion blurs in flash MX /5 ? Any one with links to tutorials is welcome to post em

My Button Blurs When Zoomed Out To 100%..
I know I've seen a thread like this around, but I cant find it anymore..
I believe you can turn it off somewhere, I just cant remember where..
Please help me,

~Des

Preloader Blurs Movie
I've tried 2 different preloader extensions and I'm getting the same results. I'm sure I must be doing something wrong. What is causing the movie to be blurred?

http://www.ewtn.com/ewtnkids/test.htm

Thanks!
Leslie

Character Motion Blurs
Heyo, I've been trying to figure out how to do this little animation bit that involves motion blurs. I can do blurs of backgrounds and quick camera zooms, but I can't seem to get character motion blurs.

Here's an example of what I want to do:

Click here.

Watch when Sonic and the main character run around. There are spots when they are blurred. (Not the colored streams, but when they run off screen or get hit) How do I do that? I tried to blur a character in Photoshop but when I import it and try to "Trace Bitmap" like I do for sprites, Flash pretty much locks up. Is there a way for me to do this? Or does this require another program to do? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Allow Smoothing Blurs Images?
Hey everyone

I have 10 images on my stage, and when I check the "Allow Smoothing", the images are very blurry when I test the movie. They are all on equal pixels.

They are a part of a menu that I tween by the x and y axis so I need them to allow smoothing, or else they chop all the way in the tweening.

But is that a choice you have to make? Blurry pictures and slick animation OR sharp pictures and bad animation?

Is there no way that I can have my images sharp with the allow smoothing property enabled?

- Rune

Resizing Txt Box W/ Dynamic Txt Blurs Txt? HELP
Can anyone provide insight on this issue?

I've downloaded a FLASH Dynamic Template and finally have the ability to change the Txt content box size, now when I publish the movie, the text shows up blurry?

Any ideas I've scoured the net looking for clues?

using Flash MX 2004

J

[F8] Movie Clip Blurs When Being Positioned
Hello,

I have a movie clip, instance name is 'loadbar'. This 'loadbar' width's is 1280 px, height's is 2 px.
The movie clip contains a 1 px high yellow rectangle (x: 0, y: 0) and below this a 1 px high blue rectangle (x: 0, y: 1).

The movie's background is black.

When I compile the movie everything works fine.

However when I position this 'loadbar' with AS 2.0, the movie clip just
blurs. I mean the yellow will be not true yellow, it blurs.

Do you know why is this happening?

The AS positioning:

Code:
Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";
Stage.align = "TL";
var stageListener:Object = new Object();
stageListener.onResize = function() {
loadbar._x=(Stage.width - 1280) / 2;
loadbar._y=Stage.height / 2;
};
Stage.addListener(stageListener);
stageListener.onResize();

Thanks,

Mac

Dragable Movieclip That Blurs Background
I made a background with several stacked images. On the layer above the background I've made a translucent movieclip that is draggable. How do I make the movieclip blur whatever is behind it?

Thanks!

Bitmap Font Blurs On Frame 2... But No Movement?
Hi there.... I have a wierd bizarre problem, that I really dont think should be occuring.

Basically Im using bitmap fonts, but in a button. These work fine if they are on the timeline for just one frame, but if they are on the scene for more than one frame, they blur on the second, even without any movement or tweening.

To show an example I have stripped the fla right down to a simple timeline with 2 frames, you can see when you go to frame 2 it blurs when previewing.

http://www.dreamshock.com/bitmaptest.fla

frame 1:

frame 2:

HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLP !!! (please )

[AS Textfields] Autosize Blurs Pixel Fonts
I'm pulling in some dynamic text and have set my textfield.autoSize = true so that it expands to fit the length of the dynamic text. The problem is that as the text length gets longer, my pixel font in the textfield starts to blur. I've done some research on this and found a post here on Ultrashock that recommended using Math.round() to adjust the height of my textfield after the text has loaded, but have been unsuccessful in getting that to work. I've done some tracing on the _xscale and _yscale of my text field and it appears to be slight off of 100, so I'm guessing that's causing the problem...but again, I'm unable to round that integer to a whole number. Maybe I'm doing that wrong. After I load in the text, I have this script to round the _xscale and _yscale:

ActionScript Code:
Math.round(news_mc.newsTXT._xscale);
Math.round(news_mc.newsTXT._yscale);

It doesn't work, so I'm not sure if I'm doing it right or maybe I need to use an if statement first to make sure the text field has been resized. Any thoughts on this? Thanks!

Pixel Font Blurs On DuplicateMC Call. Why?
I am using a pixel font with some MC I'm duplicating, but they are not staing on-Pixel. I've verified the settings of each MC making up the duped MC, and all are on-Pixel.

Anyone know why after the seventh one or so, they MC buttons blur. It's driving me nuts

Here:
http://www.bleedingtree.com/idologic...ompSmall1.html

"Please select demo" > "CPanel" > "rvskin" will load the buttons

This is the dupMC function:
"function labelLoad(){
labelRemove();
ystart = b._y;
for (n=1;n<_root.num;n++) {
duplicateMovieClip("b", "b" + n, n);
setProperty("b" + n, _y, ystart + n*21
);
this["b"+n].demoTitle.demoTitle.demoTitle=_root.menuLoad["demoB"+n];
this["b"+n].demoTitle.demoTitle.demoSection=_root.menuLoad["demoA"+n];
this["b"+n].demoName=_root.menuLoad["demoC"+n];
}"

Thanks

Autosize "center" Blurs Pixelfonts..?
I'm trying to create buttons which create a txtfld within themself, and I'd like to center the txt.. it's working but the txt is blurring..
This is the code inside the but_mc..

ActionScript Code:
_parent.createTextField("but_txt", 1, 0,0, 1, 1);
tekst = new TextFormat();
tekst.font = "standard 07_51";
tekst.size = 8;
tekst.color = 0x000000;
_parent.but_txt.autoSize = "center";
_parent.but_txt.embedFonts = true;
_parent.but_txt.border = 0;
_parent.but_txt.background = 0;
_parent.but_txt.selectable = 0;
_parent.but_txt.text = "Home";
_parent.but_txt.setTextFormat(tekst);

Is there any way to stop the txt from blurring...or another easy way to center the txt in the middle of the button?
this._x=Math.Random(this._x)
this._y=Math.Random(this._y) isn't the problem..

Bluring Text
hi,
I´m starting to do my first AS.
Could somebody help me to do these blur effects on a text when it leaves the Scene with AS?
I think it´s done with duplicateMC, or so.

thanx cobo

Aliased Text - Keeps Bluring
Hi,

I am attempting to use the alised text option for Tahoma so the text appears nice and crisp. Only problem is this is not alwasy the case and sometimes the text is appear blurred. I have tried setting to intergers both from the centre and top left of the info panel.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Cheers.

Dabush

Image Transition Examples
Does anyone have any examples of nice image transitions, and/or links to tutorials or other resources?

I'm trying to figure out how to make a dynamic version of something like this: http://www.flashden.net/files/16553/preview.swf

Found this interesting too: http://www.flash-filter.net/rain-dro...r-effect.phtml

I don't dig component type stuff though, I'd rather learn how to do it myself. Anyone have any resources or references?

[CS3] Load/Unload - Here We Go Again (image Included)
I've read various forum posts on load/unload. At this point I am not going to ask for specific code. Instead, I'll just ask a construction question for my project. I think I can work my way through code even though I am a newbie.

Question/Project

I plan a main screen with buttons. Each button would launch a video. Each video would play into this same window (where the buttons are). At the end of each video clip I need for the video to close(unload?) so the user would have access to the buttons again to play another video.

The direction I want to focus learning is putting a cue point at the end of each swf. Then I would reference this cue point with an unload action. Is that the correct direction I need to go?

As a secondary point, if the user does not want to play the loaded swf to the end where the cue point would trigger close(unload)....would I put a button into each video swf that the user could close(unload) the playing video. Basically I might have the button say "Close this video" on roll-over. Is this also the correct way to construct this.

The bottom line is how should this project be constructed?

Thanks.

Loading Of External Image Not Included In Preloader
Okay... I now know that I can load a jpg dynamically from the server at runtime using the loadMovie() method. But the loading of this image is not included in my preloader for the rest of the swf and therefore my swf movie plays before my image is loaded.

How can I include the loading of a loadMovie() in my preloader for the mainmovie?

Release Button - Image Stays (FLA Included)
I have this movie so close to working. All i need to figure out now is when you push a button, and image appears, and when you let go, it stays there.

It sounds like the simplest thing but i just can't figure it out.

I have script set to each button on the root level so that when they are pressed it pulls a bunch of links from a text file.

If you double click the buttons you can see that on the hover state it changes the button face and shows a different title.

Currently I put the unrolled map on the Down and Hit state, but when you play the movie, as soon as you press a release a pressed button the unrolled map image disappears.

If someone can please help me with this I'd appreciate it greatly, the Deadline clock for this project is well passed due.

Scrolling Image Autostart? Code Included...Please Help
I am trying to make an image scroll from top to bottom. As ur mouse goes over it, you can scroll it back up or down. It stops at the top and bottom. But I can't get it to have a default scrolling speed and direction for when there is no mouse on it. Here is the code I have on the movie clip! Thanks!

onClipEvent (load)
{
ycenter=150;
speed=1/30;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame)
{
var distance=_root._ymouse-ycenter;
_y+=(distance*speed);
if (_y > 800) _y=800;
if (_y < -535) _y=-535;
}

The if statements stop it at the top and bottom. I still need those to work after we get it to start scrolling. I need it to act as if the mouse is already at the top of the .swf file. Thank you!

-L

How To Make Mouse Move Background Image - Example Included
Hey everyone,
I was wondering if anyone knows how this website was built in flash?

http://www.robyn.com/

I want to create a website like this with moving background image and buttons like the above site...

Are there any tutorials you can link me to? I have been browsing the site but can't seem to find anything for this...

thanks alot!!
James

How To Make Mouse Move Background Image - Example Included
How to make mouse move background image - example included

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Hey everyone,
I was wondering if anyone knows how this website was built in flash?

http://www.robyn.com/

I want to create a website like this with moving background image and buttons like the above site...

Are there any tutorials you can link me to? I have been browsing the site but can't seem to find anything for this...

thanks alot!!

[F8] Water Effect Around Girls Legs (image Included)
Hello..

I'm fine with the basics of flash, creating buttons, tweens, shapes, etc. However, I've been trying to figure out how to animate the water around this girls legs so that appears to be moving. I've searched on the forum to threads dating back to 2004, but a lot of the links/examples there are dead.

I'll be around all day today so if you have any questions, I'll try to respond as soon as possible, and by possible, I mean in a couple of minutes, unless it's night time.

Attatched is the image I want to animate. The girls legs are to be in place, but the water around her should be moving, in the direction you see the first ripples in. I've tried creating graphic symbols to move/fade around, but it looks too fake.

XML Based Horizontal Image Scroller (src Included): Some Help Needed.
Hello,

I'm currently working on an XML based horizontal image scroller. Since I'm stuck with 2 annoying problems, I decided to share the project's source, and count on the experience of others to try and help me.

As you'll see, it's running pretty good already, only 2 major problems left:
- Bug when scroller moves to the left: the images overlap, and I simply can't locate the problem.
- The tooltip: I can't seem to get it into highest layer (level), on top of everything. When tracing it's depth, it says '-16383'.

As for the rest, I still need to implement 2 remaining functionalities:
- If the sum of the images (width) is smaller than the width of the movie, the images need to be duplicated untill theirs sum's width exceeds the width of the movie.
- I'd like to add a nicer mouseOver effect.

Especially help on the 2 bugs would be greatly appreciated, the other remaining functionality I'll work out myself...

[source removed]

Text Animations - Need Some Examples Of Artsy-fartsy Text Tweens
I'm doing some simple text animations for a business website. Text only, no graphics. The text is news announcement sort of stuff.

I want something a little more interesting than simple fades, scrolls, etc., but then again, it can't be too animated lest it be too tacky.

Anybody know of a website(s) with some good examples of text motion and shape tweens that are creative yet conservative?

Thanks,
CH

How Can I Have Focus Move Over Different Part Of A Large Image(example Site Included)
hi there,

I'm looking to have one large image for the site and navigate over different corners of it for each page.

This website does exactly that:
http://www.benmontague.co.uk/

How can i do that the best way? I could do it in timeline, but i'd preferably like to learn how to do this using AS3

many thanks

[CS3] [AS2] Looking For Examples In Text Games
Well... as the title says, I'm trying to find any text-game examples that are available for download to be able to look at their code. Even tutorial examples would be great - I have six days left to develop the last piece of code for a website, and we're doing this whole thing as a text-style interface.

Dynamic Text Box Not Showing Full Text (file Included)
Hello,

Here's the problem I'm having:

I have created a dynamic text box and written text in it. I'm doing this because static text boxes tend to blur text sometimes, and dynamic text boxes don't do this. Then, I've selected the box and transformed it into a MovieClip. The problem is that, the text box doesn't show the full text, that is entered there, unless I stretch it out to much, and then the stage alignment functions don't work properly. Is there a way, of fixing the bad display of my entered text?

Thank you.

Input Text (.fla Included)
Attached is a .fla file...I want to input a value in the first input box, then when I click the next frame button, I want that same value to appear in the input box of the second frame....pretty easy but for some reason I can not figure it out!!! AAAAHHH!

help please...it should take a normal person 1 minute.

Text Effect Question? .fla Included
Hi, I am wondering how to alter the actual words shown in this text effect, I know noyhing about actionscript?
Please help me alter this effect.
Grab the .fla here!
http://www.cyberup.com.au/public/text effect.zip

Cheers
Pippin

Scrolling Text Included Images
i have to put a lots of "text" and "screen shots" copied from Ms word to flash demo

plz can any one help me.

plz if possible send the .fla file as i am new to this

it should look like a word document

Please Help, Roll Over With Changing Text. Example Included
I was wondering if anyone has a tutorial on how to make this roll over. I found one before but I have lost it now.

I want to change text when it rolls over different items.

example

if you roll over each person a different name comes up.

Please help.

[F8] How Do I Unhide The Text? (FLA Included) - Should Take An Expert 10 Seconds
i'm using a template that i got off template monster and i'm trying to make the names of the binder labels appear correctly. however i'm having no luck unhiding it. please help... i've spent hours on it...and i know an expert will take 10 seconds....

look at the swf and compare it to the fla

LINK REMOVED...

Using Arrays In A ASCII (text) File Being Included By ActionScript
Ok, first of all I'd like to introduce myself really quick. I've been looking around and think this is a great site for some time now, finally registered because I had a question that has stumped me. I just started learning ActionScript a couple days ago and have made some great progress (it's easy for me to pick up as I've been doing PHP for some time now and the syntax is quite similar in some parts.)

Now, on to my question:

I'm loading variables from an ASCII file in the same directory (on a computer, this is an .exe application.) Now the file loads fine, but what I'm trying to do is use arrays in the text file. Here's the context of my text file:

Code:
&servers=1
&server[1]=http://www.agigagames.com/YaPP/
&servername[1]=Testing server
&loading=NO

My code for loading the file:

Code:
loading = "YES";
loadVariablesNum("servers.yafc", 0);

The problem is in the next bit of code, I can't get it to add the item to the listbox. It adds an item, but all that's there is a , yet I've tried putting in a dynamic text box with the var of servername[1] and it displayed fine.

Code:
n = 1;
while (n <= servers) {
serverslist.addItem(servername[n],server[n]);
n++
}
stop();

I appreciate any responses, thanks!

MX Paints Work Area Very Slowly When Text Included
Has anyone else noticed this? Even with short paragraphs, it's painting the work area really slowly, and it ain't my machine. (Though on further inspection, the CPU is spiking to 100% used when the textbox position is being adjusted, so maybe it is my machine. )

Is there a fix about? (Other than not writing anything, or getting a new machine? )

Scrollable Dynamic Text; Help My Flash File Included (MX 04)
(thank you skribble for helping me get this far!)

Alright so now I have a new problem. I'm trying to get dynamic text to load into a scrollpane, but it doesn't seem to work. I've included my flash file, so maybe someone could help me out with this, I've spent over 5 hours on it already, maybe I'm just missing something obvious T.T

The script for it is on a new layer called "Action". If I just create a dynamic text field on the stage, it works fine. So to try and get it in my scrollpane, I placed the dynamic field into a movie clip called "p1". Then in the parameters of the scrollpane, I have content set to p1. It doesn't work... and if I change it to static text it loads in the scrollpane just fine.

I was thinking maybe I have to tell the original load script where to look for the instance? But how? Or is it something else... please help me

EDIT-- Erm.. my file size was too big to attach, sorry about that..

I made the graphics all ghetto and made the stage really small but it didn't really help with the file size.

I uploaded it to my server, CLICK HERE for the flash file and CLICK HERE for the text file.

I'm sorry the flash is so large (400k), but if I zip it my server will give a "forbidden" if you try and download it. I tested the link on my mac and PC, so I know it works heh. Sorry about all the trouble.. Help if you can